A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

Because John Cassavetes was so terrific in live TV, a lot of his friends had not been able to participate in that yet and so they asked if he would gather with them at night when I was at the play and tell them what live TV was like, what you had to adjust to because it was its own medium - it had many things you had to be aware of.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.